audience into questioning if the vision of the law was successful. Carlson zealously promotes that the legalization of marijuana was a damaging result for Colorado considering the comparison of operating unlicensed pot shops to “Colombian drug cartels” and “arsenal of assault weapons”. Carlson employs this technique in order to insinuate that these pot shops are of equal mercilessness‚ allowing the reader to feel fear. Carlson strives to manoeuver citizen’s satisfaction in the government by
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has noticed the Mexican drug cartel has strengthened its ties with the U.S. gangs. According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment‚ the gang-cartel link is most highly seen in El Paso between the Barrio Azteca gang and the Juarez drug cartel‚ but similar alliances are emerging in various parts of the country‚ (Barrio ‚n.d.). Most street gangs in El Paso don ’t deal directly with Mexican cartels‚ but the alliance between the Barrio Azteca gang and the Juarez drug cartel is well documented
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seems to be a mess. As Zambada‚ one of the biggest cartel leaders said in an interview: “The government arrived late to the (drug) fight. Nobody can solve in days problems that took years to develop. Corruption infiltrated the system from the bottom and it climbed to the top along the years. Also‚ the President’s collaborators lie to him continuously by pretending that they make progress‚ which does not happen in this lost war.” All of the Mexican governments tried to fight back. They have achieved
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bringing hope and faith to the indigenous people. Since the 1990s‚ the Zapatistas have brought independence to Mexican citizens‚ fought for rights of all people‚ and brought back what was originally theirs. Even now‚ the modern day Zapatistas are continually fighting for their cause in more nonviolent ways. Power and control are allowed to be fought by the Zapatistas because the Mexican government is unfairly using their authority‚ and the actions of the Zapatistas allow their cause to increase in
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Ecuador and Brazil‚ were found dead on a ranch in San Fernando‚ Tamaulipas‚ which is 150 km from the U.S. border city of Brownsville. This discovery came from one survivor who found his way to the Navy troops and reported members of the Los Zeta cartel at the nearby ranch. According to the Borderland Beat; 21 rifles‚ six 5.6 mm M4 carbines‚ three 7.60 mm AK-47‚ seven 12 gauge shotguns‚ five .22 caliber rifles‚ 101 magazines‚ two ammunition belts‚ six thousand 649 cartridges of various calibers‚
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Drug trafficking‚ violence‚ murder‚ Joaquin Guzman Loera‚ known as El Chapo‚ is the Chief Executive Officer of the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel. This cartel specially stands out among the others because it supplies more heroin‚ methamphetamine‚ cocaine and marijuana than any other cartel or crime syndicate in the world‚ controlling 80% of drugs brought into the United States. El Chapo started selling drugs as a teenager‚ in Badiguarato‚ Mexico‚ where he was born. He founded the Sinaloa Drug Cartel
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the country in order to meet the conditions created from the drug market. Their activity is constantly causing chaos and violence throughout Mexico today. In addition‚ the cartels are dependant on US customers to buy their drugs which finance their operations‚ so naturally their activity and violence flows into the US as well. This paper will explore the early days of Mexican smuggling and crime‚ and then discuss how Mexican drug cartels were started‚ their rise to power‚ and finally where they are
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Narcotics has for the most part have always been an occurring issue in Mexico. Drug cartels used Mexico as a focus for conducting their narcotics operations. However‚ for the past decade‚ the drug war has spiraled out of control. Thousands of people are killed each year‚ including innocent civilians who are not involved in drugs‚ as a result of the Mexican drug crisis. One of the key factors that created Mexico’s current drug crisis is Mexico’s democratic transition. Mexico started to transition from
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who are involved with criminal activity‚ there are many other civilians who are judged just because they populate Mexico. The film Sicario takes place in Mexico‚ where a task force joined by Kate Macer‚ work hard to make sure the cartel responsible for of all the drugs and the deaths of a few members of the task force are finally diminished. Throughout this whole journey‚ many issues involving race‚ gender‚ and class are identified and my paper will aim to focus and construct different arguments
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The purpose of this paper will be to make a comparison between the Colombian drug cartels at the turn of the century with the mexican cartels today. The object of this comparison will be to determine the effectiveness of large scale millitary intervention against drug cartels.I will assess weather this comparison is not only justified but in any way usefull in understanding how fight a well funded well armed non-state enemy. This is a response to public comments by high ranking United States officials
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